Cotton and corn planter



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- J. W. LEHR.

COTTON AND CORN PLANTBR.

No. 478,441. 1 Patented July 5,1892.

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J. W. LBHR. GOTTON AND CORN PLANTER.

Patented Ju 5 1892 In: news nuns cm, mew-mum, WASHKNGTDN. o. c.

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- J. W. LEHRF COTTON AND CORN PLANTBR. I

No. 478,441. I Patented July 5, 1892.

illlll w llllllhfllllli UNITED STAT PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. LEHR, on FREMONT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE LEER AGRI- CULTURAL COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. {if/8,441, dated July 5, 1892. Application filed January 21,1892. Serial No. 418,834. 0T0 mo l-l zen of the United States of America, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and: State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton and Corn Planters, of which the following is a specifi cation, reference being had therein to the aocompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improved combined corn and cotton planter; and it consists in the novel combinationand arrangement of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved "combined corn and cotton planter. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached view of the bottom plate or casting of the seed-hopper.- Fig. 4 is an inverted view thereof. Fig. 5 is aperspecti've view of my planter, taken from a rear elevational point. Fig. 6 is an enlarged upper side view of the bottom plate or casting B.- Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the housing for the pawl g and the spring 9? of the seed-disk O; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of said pawl g. Fig. 9- is a perspective view of the cut-0E 11 to prevent overcrowding of the seed-carrying perforations of the disk 0. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the fixed disk B, adapted to coaet with the revolving disk 0 to drop the seed through its peripheral notch c. Fig. 11 is an under side view of the seed-dropping disk 0. Fig. 12 is an under side view of thebottom plate B. Fig. 13 is a broken detailed View of the cogged disk G.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide theusual seed-hopper A, which is mounted upon the beams A A, having their rearend portions curved downward and forming sh0vel-standards,-on'e among other ordinary ways for that purpose.

B is the bottom plate or casting for the hopper A, having'at its corners pendent projec-' tions or lugs a a, adapted to rest upon the beams A, the hopper being held firmly in position by means of bolts 1) b, passed through said beams and bracket-like straps b b, pendent from the side of hopper and bottom plate or casting B. In the bottom plate or casting B, having a circular opening 0 for receiving the corn which is dropped through a series of perforations, is the revolving disk, presently more fully referred to.

B is a disk fixedly secured a short distance below the bottom plate or casting B by a bolt d, passing through and held to said disk and also passed up through and held in an oblong opening D in said bottom plate, said disk having a peripheral notch or recess a.

O is the revolving distributing disk or plate arranged upon the bolt cl between the fixed disk 13 and the bottom plate or casting B and having, as above intimated,'a series of openings c c',through which the corn is dropped.

The under side of the revolving disk 0 is cast or provided with a series of pendent teeth or lugs e, by which it is revolved through the action, preferably, of the prongs or arms of a cam-like wheel E, adjustably held by a set-screw e on the driving-shaft F, suitably limited in its movement and journaled in brackets or hangers f, secured to the seedhopper at the bottom side.

The openings in the revolving seed-dropping disk 0 are successively engaged by a tooth or projection g on a pawl-like arm g, suitably pivoted in the bottom plate or casting B and pressed into engagement with said disk by a springg, acting upon said pawl or arm and suitably housed with the latter by a raised casting or portion h on said bottom plate, and a still further raised extension h of said raised portion h.

Arranged in thecircular opening 0 of the bottom plate or casting B is a spring-pressed cut-off 2', adapted to prevent the overcrowding of the seed-carrying perforations of the revolving diskO and suitably held to its place 0 by the casting h.

The'bottom plate or casting B at its; rear side isprovided with the cotton-dropping opening j, adapted lobe regulated in size by a slide 70, fitted in a depressed plate-like projection it and a cross-piece 70 integral or cast in one piece with the bottom plate or casting, said slide having a longitudinal slot 70 through which passes a bolt is, havinga winged nut 70 to provide for holding said slide at the required point of adjustment in regulating the size of the cotton-dropping opening. An upraised ribike guide k of the plate-like portion 70' projects into the slot k of the slide 70 to aid the guiding of the latter in its movement.

I11 the hopper A is arranged a shaft 071., snitably journaled in the front and rear sides of said hopper and driven by an endless chain belt n,encompassing different sprocket-wheels n, 91 secured on said shaft m and the drivingshaft F, respectively. This provides for the driving of the shaft on at varying rates of speed, according as it maybe desired to vary the dropping of the cottonseed by exchanging the wheels 01 of one for the other. The shaft in is armed with a series of radial spoke-like arms m and a baii-like arm at to force the cotton-seed when desiring to drop the same through its openingj.

The cotton dropper is readily removed, when desired,bynnshipping the chain belt'n.

The forward end of the driving-shaft F is provided with a beveled pinion 0, adapted to engage, according to the speed required, any one of three circular series of cogs 17 p p on the face of a disk G, secured to the axle q of the driving-wheel II, whose axle or shaft is journaled in and carries the downwardlycurved forward ends of the beams A. The disk G has a series of apertures or perforations '1', Fig. 13, provided throughout between the series of cogs to permit the dirt taken up by said disk or dirt accidentally thrown thereon to work out therethrough, and thus prevent the clogging or impeding of the action of the cogs.

Z l are the handles connected to the beams A by braces Z Z and fastened by the same bolts as secure the hopper to said beams.

K is the front shovel-standard having also adjustable brace connections K with the beams A to vary the pitch of penetration of the shovel in graduating the depth of the f u rro \v. ards K has a bail-like connection K with the beams A, said bail-like connection also being secured to the latter by the same bolts as connect the hopper and handles to said beams.

L is the seed boot or conductor suitably connected to the underside of the bottom plate or casting B and held by strap-like connection L to the front shovel-standard, permitting the adjustment of the same simultaneously with and in a corresponding inclination or pitch as said standard.

M is the bifurcated draft-hooked bar having its inner ends laterally extended engaging apertures in the beams A and held horizontally about by pins or pegs M, inserted below the arms of said draft-bar in additional apertures or perforations of said beams.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim The combination of the hopper-bottom plate having a circular opening therethrough and a depressed plate-like projection 70', a slotted slide is, arranged in the latter and adapted to receive a guide-lug 7.1" on said projection, a bolt and nut 70* k to regulate the adjustment of said slide, a serially-perforated disk having pendent teeth or cogs, the fixed peripherally-notched disk B, the spring-pressed pawl-like arm pivoted in said bottom plate, the housing having an extension for inclosing said pawl-like arm and its spring, the pronged wheel, the d ri ving-shaft, an d the disk G, geared to said shaft, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH W. LEHR.

\Vitnesses: E. L. Boson, C. 1- CARR.

The upper end of the shovel-stand 

